The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-11-04
THE MOSS POINT RAILROAD.

niger, huu MeSsrS. Charles Marshall
Division Superintendent, aud MI
, WEIGH. General Freight Agent o
the Louisville and Nashville Rail
e road, In their special car, arrived
is here last Sunday night and remain
ed all The forenoon Monday to con
Ter with the business men of Moss
FONT aud Scranton, on the subject
OF building a branch railroad from
the line of the L. and N. II. r. TO
c the mills at Moss Point. BY some
4 mistake their programme was not
: generally understood in time to
take them to Moss Point, and over
the contemplated line of the branch
road until it was too late. During
the morning, however, they were
meet at their car by Messrs. L. N.
Dantzler, W. Denny, A Blumer, g.
ii. Howe, j. w. Griffin, G. Fl.
Wood, M. A. Dces, E. Bloomfield
aud j. L. Dantzler, of Moss Point ;
L. K. Mayors, FL. Bloomfield and
ID. b. Everltt, of Scranton, and
a business conference was had last.
ing owe an hour.
For several years the citizens of
Moss Point have been endeavoring
to interest the L. and n. r. r. IN
this project, without success. This
conference was solicited in the hone
that the Company would equip and
operate the road if the citizens
would furnish the right of way.
grade the track and supply the
ties. But this conference developed
the fact that the L. and N. Co.
was not willing to own and operate
the road in competition with water
transportation wherein the largest
shippers of Moss Point are iinan.
cially interested by the ownership
OF water crafts, unless such ship. I
pers should become at least equally {
interested in the railroad. With 7
this view of the matter Col. Hara. /
han proposed that If the citizens v
would build and own the road, and l
statistics should be submitted which Il
would justify the conclusion that it Il
pay expenses, his Company
would operate it for freight and q
passenger traffic at the actual ex. y.
OF operating it, any balance fo
eaIized to go the road owners. II
The interrogatiOns OF Mr.. WEIGH oe
llclted tho information that the n
assenger traffic over the road n,
ould amount to probably 40 or so *
ersons per day, at 25 cents per ho
each way, aud that all the
coming freight new largely trans
'rted from New Orleans by sctloon. ag'
, or delivered here and carried 10 VIII
OSs Point overland, would 90 over sev
road aud bear an additional las
light tariff of so per cent, if rou
cessary. VIII
The principal matter of couSid. SUI
'tlon, however, was the lumber eht
The lumber shipments nie'
M Moss Point are made almost dog
rely by water to Southern ports, n
lie attention ever having been o+
d to interior business OIL account o.,u,
expense OF railroad transporta- u,,o
!. Hence, no conclusions could bf;
arrived at on this point. Mr.. ton,
lch, therefore, proposed that lie aoat
lid furnish free transportation 10,
committee of two Moss Point -,
"S't '"o INFERIOR wou
reached by the L. and NJ,
post themselves as to the prices III
classiicatiOns of Lumber, after opel
CHI Mr.. WEIGH will again furnish for ]
transportation to Il mittee vanC
confer again with the officials price
lObile, New Orleans, Louisville gran
on the road as the strlk
mittee may designate. The stfik
oermen will then report prices Tr
III
Unable at the different points IT,
."es ca" Ham
d 10 sell by the classifcations go.
several points, and the com. ia
will then decide whether or -.
hey can afford to transport the -.
'er for the margin. II this can
Ione iC is plaiu 10 see that 1t Mn
d open up a new and extensive was q
.et for our yellow piUe lumber, ing al
make our Gulf Coast ports the live a
located numbering mauufactur. pears
Oints in the South. There is no does
o The present demand in the field
Tor tor yellow pine lumber.
was roughly iutimated that
line can be graded and ,'u" !
cs furnished for not more than va
eight thousand dollars. The oeo" !
would probably cost twelve ''"oe